FQCB #68 Theme of Hibernating Animals starts 28 Jan 2025 + #67 brag honors and mentions

 Howdy! Welcome to FQCB #68 Hibernating Animals Theme!

Your location can be any forest/woods/meadows/farm/ranch/rural setting around the world. What inspires you about hibernating animals? Animals that hibernate include bears, hedgehogs, groundhogs, bumblebees, snails, snakes, turtles, skunks, and several more.

NEW longer time format: January 28, 2025--> February 27, 2025 with start and end times at 12:00am CT/Chicago or 6:00am UK for time references.

NEW submission limit per challenge: with the timeframe increased to a month, each participant can submit 5 themed projects per challenge!!! 

Bragging rights are possible. Skip to the bottom of the post for #67 results. Best Barnraiser is a new honor that is offered a Guest DT invite. Barnraisers Top 3 Picks are for 1-40 entries. Top 5 Picks are for 41+ entries. 

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The design team crew has done their stash quests and prepared these terrific projects:

DT member Nana Connie= 

 #68 theme elements = bear

and

DT/owner Becca= 

#68 theme elements = bears, hedgehogs and a visiting baby raccoon

PLUS

new barnraiser brag honor=

Best Barnraiser

with Guest DT Invite from December 2024: will be coming in February 2025

with GDT project from Heather! We're looking forward to seeing her GDT creation next month. 

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Show us your outdoorsy interpretations for theme #68 badge!

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PARTICIPANTS FOR #68 =

Future participants: use the following Inlinkz tool address to submit your 1-5 hibernating animals- themed projects for #68. Deadline is February 27, 2025 at 12:00am CT/Chicago. Bragging rights are possible. We have tiers of recognition based on volume of submissions: Top 3 for 1-40 entries, Top 5 for 41+ entries plus a new Best Barnraiser with Guest DT Invite honor. 

LINK= 

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/f53c95a166cf41969e685907ba5cce7d

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See you later. Fare thee well. Come back often for more of our country charm!

FarmQuest design team: NanaConnie and owner Becca

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SKIP OVER for the #67 Brag honors and mentions

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DT Call:

We would love to have 2 more artisans (bloggers and/or IG) who don't mind linking up/networking in other challenge blogs and/or Facebook crafting groups, YouTube video tutorials, Instagram, etc. If you love farm/country/outdoor/rural topics and creating themed projects before each 14th and 28th, then email message FQCB owner Becca Sadler =

heartsquestbybecca@gmail.com

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AND

#67 BRAGGING RIGHTS ANNOUNCEMENT:

six entries

"Best Barnraiser" with a Guest DT invite

#67 (trails, paths, walkways or roads theme) Best Barnraiser is entry #5 by Jolanda! Congrats! (if accepting Guest DT invite for challenge #69 on February 28, 2025 ===> please email me/Becca at heartsquestbybecca@gmail.com)

Congratulations to Jolanda!

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plus

Bragging rights for Top 3 Barnraisers mentions:

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The Barnraisers picks were decided by owner Becca S.  

in order of entry:

#1 by Heather =

and

#3 by Elle-jeanne =

and

#4 by Elizabeth = 

Congrats to these wonderful artisans for creating these country charmers!

FARM-tastic!!! 

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**See ya soon at FarmQuest!**

***remember the time length of the challenge is extended to 30 days (except February) and instead of 3 project limit per person, it's upped to 5 themed projects.